- Published: 3 August 2015
- ISBN: 9781784160302
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $26.00
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
- Published: 3 August 2015
- ISBN: 9781784160302
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $26.00
5 stars
The Telegraph
Touching ... a quiet, gentle, moving novel. Joyce's writing has a simplicity that sings and she captures hope best of all.
The Observer
If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, you'll be thrilled with this sequel.
The Sun
Invest in a box of Kleenex before you start this tear-jerker - [one of] this month's big reads.
Women & Home
A delightful read. ... Joyful moments and gentle comedy.. an uplifting and moving companion to Harold Fry
Kat Berry, Daily Express
Since finishing the two books, I often found myself wistfully wishing for another glimpse into Harold and Queenie’s world.
Jamie Klingler, Stylist
A beautiful book ... both desperately sad and sweetly uplifting - even funny... I really did love it.
Lucy Reber, Stylist
Joyce's poignant tale of Harold and Queenie will stay with us for a long time to come.
Stylist
If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry you'll be thrilled with this sequel.
Fabulous magazine
A hot read
Good Housekeeping
a lesson in gentle restraint
Sunday Times
Must read: a funny emotional story
marie claire
Good though The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is, this is better ....with an even more engaging central character, it will be a hard-hearted reader who can finish it without tears.
John Harding, Daily Mail
An extraordinarily touching portrait - all dangers of sentimentality are banished by a final twist that makes you realise that what you've been reading is even sadder, and far tougher, than it seemed.
Readers Digest
The author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry hits a darker but no less compelling note ... However, the book is not without its own pleasurable uplift: a spiritual wind beneath its wings … perhaps it adds necessary ballast to the sparkling balloon of Harold's journey – and it will certainly find a grateful readership.
The Guardian
[With] gently comic moments and [the] pitch-perfect black humour that Joyce writes so well ... It is not necessary to read Harold’s story before reading Queenie’s to enjoy this bittersweet novel which is a pleasure in its own right. However, reading both will only serve to double that pleasure.
The Independent
A beautiful story which will grip you, make you laugh and cry, uplift your spirit and leave you feeling profoundly grateful and changed by the reading experience ... This is a wonderful book about loss, redemption and joy – and I give it my own prize.
Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail
This tender, funny tragic novel guides you to a point of emotion rarely found in modern fiction and the wonderful ending is truly uplifting.
Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
Joyce accomplishes the rare feat of endowing her continuing narrative with as much pathos and warmth, wisdom and poignancy as her debut. Harold was beloved by millions; Queenie will be, too.
Booklist
A fantastic book about an extraordinary life.
Holzwickeder Nachrichten, Germany
Once again Rachel Joyce writes so gripping and moving that you take the charaters to your heart immediately.
Buch aktuell, Germany
With an enchanting, poetic language Rachel Joyce writes about the fundamental questions of life and death.
52buecher, Germany
Like Harold Fry, Queenie is delightful and dark. Death, duty and regret shadow nearly every page, but the darkness is not unrelenting; there is humor, and there is light.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity ... Her love song is for us. Thank you, Rachel Joyce.
Washington Post
[A] deeply affecting novel…Culminating in a shattering revelation, her tale is funny, sad, hopeful: She’s bound for death, but full of life.
People Magazine
A moving, lyrical read about life, love and saying goodbye. this is a companion story to the similarly entrancing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, but could be read alone.
Cathy Rentzenbrink, Prima